Re: [Xen-users] XCP and vswitch

["Angel L. Mateo" <amateo@xxxxx>]

On 18/02/10 12:00, Rob Hoes wrote:
> Hi Angel,
>
> With vSwitch, every server still has its own switch, but it allows switches on 
> multiple servers to be controlled through a central controller. If you look at 
> a collection of xcp servers as a single entity (pool), such a controller is 
> able to provide an abstraction for the switches inside the servers, so it looks 
> like one big switch. This central controller is not part of the open source xcp 
> package.
	So, if I want to use vswitch pool-wide, then I have to run vswitch 
inside a virtual machine, haven't I?
> The implementation of vswitch in xcp is still very new, and unfortunately there 
> is not a lot of documentation yet. All the XenAPI networking functionality, 
> however, abstracts from the underlying implementation (linux bridging or 
> vswitch), so if you use this, you do not have to worry about the details. I 
> haven't really looked at the xsconsole extension yet, but I suppose it just 
> provides some more fine-grained control for the vSwitch of the server it runs 
> on.
	The only option it has is "Set pool-wide controller" (and a delete 
one), that asks for the IP address of the controller, that makes sense 
with the fact that I would need a central controller.

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